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Sydney solicitor has demanded that the Australian Financial Review remove an article naming barristers who have repeatedly applied for silk, arguing the paper has turned a selection process closed to the public into a searchable record of rejection.
Jacob Carswell-Doherty, of Jake McKinley, (pictured) wrote to AFR editor-in-chief James Chessell on 28 August, the day after publication of “Meet the barristers who apply for silk year in, year out” by legal affairs reporter Janek Drevikovsky.
His complaint is not that the AFR examined the silk selection process. It is the table naming this year’s applicants and setting beside each name the number of times that person has applied since 2016.
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Meghan Markle’s Russian Billionaire Connection Has a Curious LawFuel Twist As we are all once again subjected to more emetic Harry-and-Meghan headline hogging, this time yet another trans-Atlantic move and apparently the possible resurrection of her acting gig, I’m energised by the idea of her appearing in Guy Ritchie’s gangster romp ‘The Gentlemen’. What ever
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